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I've listed a few music videos that feature cycling, along with information about them. Click on the pictures to see the videos.
This video was filmed at the Transport Research Laboratory near Wokingham, where there is an assortment of odd roads through some woodland usually used for research purposes, hence the rural pedestrian crossings and unlit streetlights. The lack of other traffic is fortunate since it most likely would have driven into Natasha when she was on the wrong side of the road. The sign for the A4 junction is a red herring! Look out for the synchronised bunnyhops.
Lily Allen is seen cycling through the streets and parks of London on her Chopper. Look out for the taxi that cut her up, despite her hi-viz attire!
Another ride around London, this time from She Makes War, aka Laura Kidd. Another menacing taxi, but Laura's riding position prevents the driver from making a risky overtake. Not all is good, however, since her back tyre looks a bit flat. But that's the name of the song after all!
The Brazilian Girls, who are neither Brazilian nor all girls, take to their bikes in this video and have a good time riding along the pavement.
Vika Daineko gets followed around by a guy on a bike. She gets away by taking a flight of stairs. (Clearly a Dr Who fan!)
Morrissey and the gang cycle around Salford, without any punctures or desolate hillsides. All with sensible bicycles, not a mountain bike in sight! Also of interest will be Bigmouth Bikes Again!
The Sugarcubes' keyboard player turns up at the scene of various motorcrashes on her bike.
Lenka finds herself on a bike carrying her shopping home, but is suddenly whisked off somewhere else instead.
Mitt Piano's Alexandra Ramnewall cycles around town in a strapless dress before abandoning her bike in some woods. Not very responsible!
Hikaru Utada uses lots of forms of transport in this video, cycling included.
Payushchie Trusi (Singing Panties!!!) hang around the main square in Kyiv, with some guys doing BMX stunts.
Possibly the least strange thing that goes on in this video is Kyary unicycling across the set.
A-Studio run about the streets of (presumably) Almaty, one of them performing some acrobatics on his bike, including cycling down some stairs (see Vika Daineko above).
Irina and Alyona cycle to a photoshoot with DJ Silver, but later turn to violence!
Natali gets chased about on a bike by a guy in a digger and a woman with some buckets. Natali's videos are always quite strange...
Ed and his woman ride around Copenhagan to meet up early one morning. This must be the first music video to feature a bike with a child's seat!
Arash chases Rebecca around on his ridiculous bike, ignoring basic safe cycling rules, and narrowly escaping injury in a bizarre accident. He eventually catches up, but not before jumping over enough cars to make Evel Knievel jealous!
Half of Blestyashchie on bikes with the other two on rollerblades and one of those upright battery-powered scooter thingies. For all of Blestyashchie on static bikes see Agent 007.
Talking of static, T-ara orders a girl on a bike indoors, but it appears to be freewheeling on a stand. She will have to pedal fast to get fit on that!
Working slightly harder is the ant in SunnyHill's "The Grasshopper Song". The song is Fables' story of The Ant and the Grasshopper, but told from the grasshopper's perspective. The first minute of the video is narration explaining this.
Also going nowhere is Ukrainian girl group A.R.M.I.A. They use exercise bikes in a gym, in high heels!
Army of Lovers don't go for the standard bicycle approach. Instead, they go dressin in Fyledalen, Southern Sweden, which involves pedalling a specially made tricycle along an old railway line. Apparently this is a popular pastime in Sweden. The video also features a pantomime horse.
IU also goes for a multiple occupancy cycle, in her case a standard rickshaw. She gets driven across town, including through alleyways that were never designed for rickshaws, standing up. She passes the Vesuvio Bakery, which is also seen in the Twinkle Twinkle video by Girl's Day. Or maybe it's like Greggs.
King Charles has a couple of vintage trikes in the video for this song, a solo and a tandem. The solo tricycle has seriously big wheels!
Perfume don't actually cycle in this video. Instead they get chased by a flying bike!
Banana Girl's bike has a horn which probably sounds like the one The Vaselines used on Molly's Lips.
Shorry J of Mighty Mouth rides about town on his BMX with his friends, while wearing big headphones. (Don't wear headphones while cycling, not on roads at least!)
Goo Hara enters the scene of Kara's "Winter Magic" video riding her bike, but then decides to try and balance a plant pot on the seat. This is a not altogether successful venture and the bike topples over!
Kitty hits the cycle paths and coach parks of the Cardiff Bay area, but her own attempts at riding aren't too successful and she falls off!
Blümchen takes on the Queen song and treats it to her modern, upbeat sound. Not for the easily offended Queen fan! At the end of the video she rides her bike in seriously big heels - I think she needed to put the seat up specially!
See also Celebrities Who Ride Their Bicycles.
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